More about math, calculators, RPN and programming
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04-26-2015, 07:39 PM
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More about math, calculators, RPN and programming
Since my most favourite super moderator told me today (in his irresistibly open way of communication*) I wrote too less about said topics, please allow me to point to
d:-) * We observe a conflict management which, as an intelligent former US-American boss of me used to say decades ago, is "management by seagulls" (he meant something different to what you find in Wikipedia about a similar term now). Such methods were unseen in the old forum. |
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04-29-2015, 01:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2015 01:59 PM by robert rozee.)
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RE: More about math, calculators, RPN and programming
take a deep breath everyone, and think of your happy places!
i've actually been following the 43S thread with interest, and the lamenting of the lack of progress. here seems as good a place as any to put forward a few ideas. we've seen a credit-card sized HP-25 emulator built using quite minimal hardware, and swiss micros are shipping their tiny HP-41 reinterpretation. the level of interest in both on the forums suggests to me that perhaps the time is ripe to look at someone doing a run of 'homebrew' HP-42S calculators. the same keyboard solution as used on Chris Chung's "HP-25C Eumulator". a standard 1602 LCD module for the display (16x2 characters, HD44780 based). 2xAA cells for power directly to processor and LCD module. a PIC32MX170F256B (28-pin DIP package) to run it all, with 256k flash and 64k RAM on board. and running Free-42 as the calculator firmware. i reckon that minimal additional components would be required beyond PIC32, display module, and keyboard switches. the processor has it's own on-board clock generation and around 20 spare I/O pins to connect to everything. the keyboard could be charlieplexed if needsbe to save pins. comments? cheers, rob :-) |
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04-29-2015, 02:16 PM
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RE: More about math, calculators, RPN and programming
Hmmh, I wonder whether you wanted to post that in the "43s status" thread instead? Looks more fitting IMHO.
d:-? |
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04-29-2015, 02:31 PM
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RE: More about math, calculators, RPN and programming
no, no... the posting was made to the intended place. it was a quite deliberate attempt at distraction to defuse any reactions from 'others' to your posting and shift the subject to something non-contentious.
rob :-) |
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